Montagu Love
Montague Love - certainly an intriguing name - but his own - started his working life as a newspaper man in London. His primary expertise centered on being a field illustrator and cartoonist who covered the Boer War (1899-1902). His realistic battle sketches gained him popularity among readers, but he was bound for a different career. He decided to become an actor. A robust man with a massive head of noble bearing and brooding lower lip, these were ingredients well suited to this goal. Love honed basic stage talents in London, and then made an early departure for the US in 1913 with a road-company production of Cyril Maude's "Grumpy." An early stop was Broadway, and he returned many times to appear in a laundry list of important plays from 1913 to 1934. Silent film studios of the early days were originally based in the East, and Love started his film career at World Studios, New Jersey in 1914. His silent career alone was prodigious-nearly a hundred films. His look and bearing were perfect for authoritative figures. And, though certainly taking on a whole spectrum of roles (sultan, native chiefs, many a doctor and military officer, among many others) he became famous for his bad guy characterizations through the 1920s. Some historians credit him as the best villain of the silent era. In 1926 he was nemesis to Rudolf Valentino in The Son of the Sheik (1926) and 'John Barrymore' in Don Juan (1926). The latter movie had the particular fame of sporting the longest sword duel in silent history between Love's Count Giano Donati and Barrymore's Don Juan. The fight filming was unique and realistic with middle and close shots looking directly at the individual combatants-with the appropriate blood in their eyes. The duel was all the more complex choreography for being one with swords and daggers (historically correct but rarely seen in film history). But Love was just as effective as the Roman centurion in The King of Kings (1927) by 'Cecil B DeMille'. Starting with Synthetic Sin (1929), Love's movies followed the trend of an increasing number of silent films using recorded music and some snatches of dialogue or background sound with the several incipient audio systems. Some movies originally issued as silent were released again with the process added. `Sin' was one of 11 films of 1929 featuring Love given the semi-sound treatment. The last of these was Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island (1929), very loosely adapted to the point of being hokey, but one of the first films also using the primitive two-color process. Love had a commanding, puckered-lip British delivery of speech which he could believably weld to any part, but it particularly fit characters of authority, as in the silent era. Into the 1930s, these were increasingly benign rather than despotic-always colonels and generals, prime ministers, American presidents - even Zorro's father. Perhaps his best known character tour de force displaying his genuine acting power was his Henry VIII in Prince and the Pauper (1937). It is hard to forget him in purple as the Bishop of the Black Canons in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Sometimes, as with other veteran character actors, his roles were almost as featured extra-but his very costumed presence was all that was needed to lend realism. A very apt example was his Detchard, noble henchmen to 'Raymond Massey', in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), in which he has little more than one line. He was still in demand in the early 1940s - ten roles in 1940 alone. But these slowed into the war years. By his passing in 1943, an actor who was considered as noble on screen as off, he had lent his voice as well as virtuoso acting skills to eighty-one additional films.
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Montague Simmons
Montague Simmons is known for his work on Ferguson Rises (2021) and Whose Streets? (2017).
Montana Bertoletti
Montana Bertoletti is known for 2X4 (2016), Four Minute Ordeals (2013) and Gunther (2016).
Montana Brown
Montana Brown is an actress, known for Sidemen (2016), Love Island (2015) and Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls (2016).
Montana Hughes
Montana Jordan
Montana Jordan is an American actor. He made his acting debut with his role as Jaden in the film The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018), which starred Josh Brolin and Danny McBride. Though Montana had no previous acting experience, his funny, outgoing personality prompted many in his small, east Texas town of Ore City, TX, to suggest that he respond to a local casting call for the movie. After receiving final word that he had been chosen for the role, Montana was able to travel back home from North Carolina, where casting took place, for one day to say goodbye to his friends and family before traveling with his mother back to North Carolina to begin rehearsing and filming. Montana was born in Longview, TX, to Kelli Pieratt Smith, a first-grade teacher, and Tony Jordan. He is the youngest of three children and has two older sisters, Katelli Jordan and Jaden Jordan. He spent most of his youth racing dirt bikes and playing for the Ore City Rebels National team. Montana is an avid hunter and loves Motocross racing. He learned to play the acoustic guitar in preparation for his role as Jaden.
Montana Manning
Montana Manning is known for Daddy Issues (2018), The Little Secret (2018) and Demons Never Die (2011).
Montana Marks
Montana Marks is an actress known for Coach of the Year (2015), directed by David Stott. Montana plays Lauren Bowman, one of the lead swimmers in the film. She can also be seen in the upcoming television series Four Kings (2016) directed by Mars Callahan. She is featured in the film starring William Baldwin and Denise Richards, Christmas Trade (2015), this upcoming holiday season. Montana grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania.
Montana Moore
Montana's passion for movement began at a very young age. She has trained extensively in a variety of styles including ballet, contemporary, jazz, lyrical, hiphop, broadway and musical theatre. During her years at the studio, she trained in both R.A.D Ballet and I.S.T.D ballet/modern syllabi. Her interest in dance has taken her far beyond her Vancouver roots, training abroad with Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Boston Ballet, as well as in diverse programs in New York City, New Mexico, Seattle, and Los Angeles. She has also trained with various Vancouver- based companies including Harbour Dance Centre's ITP, The Aviary, KTL Co. and Illustrative Society. Montana recently completed her first contract with Royal Caribbean in a brand-new production, "The Silk Road", travelling and performing to audiences across Europe, the Middle East & Asia. She was chosen as part of the original cast, contributing to its creation. The production consisted of contemporary, sexy street, and Bollywood styles as well as aerial/harness work. Montana's love for her craft and passion for performing has led to commercial work and large performance works such as the 102nd Grey Cup SiriusXM Kickoff Show with artist Dallas Smith, WE Day at Rogers Arena with Paula Abdul, Vancouver's 2010 Paralympic Opening Ceremony, Suki's International Hair, The Main Event, Sportchek and many more. Montana also danced for the female hiphop group, The Sorority, on their west coast tour. You can also find her in a recurring local production, "The Darlings Cabaret", an intimate and interactive 1950's meets modern-style cabaret. Montana can also be seen in film and television with recent credits on CW's "Riverdale", Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle" and in the short film "Eclosion". Montana was also the host, dancer and choreographer for Bell TV's "Bell Outside the Box" with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Recently, Montana has found a new passion for acting, and continues to train with Nadine Wright at ACT2. Montana's technical background and current commercial styles has made her a unique and eye-catching performance artist. Her distinct attention to detail, performance quality and adaptability has led to her diverse range of work. As a previous UBC psychology graduate, Montana strives to bring a diligent and optimistic lens with her in any environment she works in. Montana challenges herself and her creativity often by collaborating with different videographers to create and explore various concepts through the use of dance, music, speech and cinematography.